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22.01 / 03:35

CEO Platform security Pool Deloitte wellness reports India’s wealth boom sparks M&A frenzy as banks chase affluent clients

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: India’s wealth management industry is scrambling to scale as a growing pool of household financial wealth remains underserved. Of the at least $1.1 trillion held by the country’s top households, defined as those with annual incomes of $25,000 or more, at the end of FY24, only about $0.7 trillion was addressed by registered wealth managers, according to a 2025 Deloitte report.

21.01 / 11:29

markets COST UPS Platform Enterprise reports Features IndiaMART to step up tech investments over two years after strong Q3: CEO Dinesh Agarwal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU: Riding a sharp jump in December-quarter earnings, B2B e-commerce marketplace IndiaMART is gearing up to invest in technology over the next two years, doubling down on AI-led automation and platform upgrades to turn leads into customers and improve supplier relations, a top executive told Mint on Wednesday. “It is the age of AI advancements.

21.01 / 09:39

Digital Manufacturing Platform Software Enterprise Cycling innovations Mint Explainer | The few bright spots in an otherwise slowing IT services sector

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The $285 billion IT services industry, employing 5.8 million people, continues to navigate an uncertain environment with multiple headwinds from AI to geopolitics. Yet, India remains central to delivering technology services at scale, even as entry-level tasks are increasingly automated.

21.01 / 09:01

markets COST UPS Provident Platform security Sebi, Amfi in talks on cutting KYC, depository charges with an eye on mutual fund profitability

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's mutual fund industry body is in discussions with the markets regulator to reduce certain fixed or non-variable costs borne by mutual funds, as these charges do not decline with growth in assets and continue to weigh on profitability, said three people familiar with the matter. Costs such as know your customer (KYC) charges and depository fees are largely fixed in nature since they are levied on each onboarded investor.

20.01 / 12:41

Platform security band voice information prevention guidelines Why India is cracking down on walkie-talkie sales online

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s consumer watchdog has cracked down on leading e-commerce platforms for selling unauthorized walkie-talkies without mandatory approvals, citing violations of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, and telecom laws.

20.01 / 12:41

markets UPS Platform Strategy Food wellness trends FMCG’s old guard turns to D2C as consumer tastes shift

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: For decades, they ruled the shelves of kirana shops and supermarkets. But since the advent of direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, which sell directly to consumers through their own sites as well as through e-commerce and quick commerce apps, often creating categories that did not exist before, large fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) firms have found themselves on the back foot.

20.01 / 10:25

markets IPO Provident Digital Platform shock rights Are IPO listings still worth the risk for small investors?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. 2026 could be another big year for initial public offerings (IPOs) with more than 100 companies already receiving approval to raise about ₹1.4 trillion (around $15.5 billion), according to Prime Database. Millions of retail investors typically flock to IPOs in the hope of earning quick profits by ‘flipping’ these shares after listing, but seasoned participants urge restraint, often shaped by hard-earned experience.

20.01 / 09:39

Platform Entertainment Discover film show social classical Nostalgia is the vibe: Gen Z hits play on ’70s-’90s blockbusters

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Films from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s are finding a cultural afterlife among younger millennials and zillennials, who are rediscovering yesteryear blockbusters—particularly for their simple themes and timeless music—through fan edits, reels, and online film-appreciation threads. Classics such as Pyaasa (1957), Half Ticket (1962), Rangeela (1995), Pardes (1997), and Sarfarosh (1999) have seen renewed traction among younger audiences, driven by improved restoration quality, wider accessibility, and curated discovery on streaming platforms, according to the Ultra Media OTT Insights Report 2025 published by film company Ultra Media & Entertainment Group.

20.01 / 08:39

Digital Platform Action security social inclusion Department It’s time for India to re-imagine governance: Tools of technology exist but mindsets need to catch up

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The coming decade will be unlike anything we have seen before. Multiple technology shifts are maturing in parallel: the intelligence revolution and rise of digital labour; breakthroughs in frontier technologies like biotechnology and advanced materials; compute moving from centralized data centres to the intelligent edge; and quantum applications becoming real in areas such as drug discovery, defence and logistics.

20.01 / 06:25

CEO Platform Tesla Cycling stage reports Traffic Tesla set to restart AI supercomputer project. Why Musk has changed his mind.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tesla is set to become the largest global maker of artificial-intelligence chips, according to CEO Elon Musk. As part of that effort it is restarting its AI supercomputer project to improve its self-driving and robotics technology.

20.01 / 00:37

CEO Platform Dreams Research performer track Why NJ mutual fund has struggled to scale despite the backing of one of India’s largest distributors

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With India’s second-largest mutual fund distributor as its parent, NJ Mutual Fund had a readymade launchpad that most entrants only dream of. Yet, more than four years after its debut, the fund house has managed to collect assets of just ₹7,119 crore.

20.01 / 00:37

Provident FIVE Platform Sustainability Bill electronic reports Far from crash, talk on AI ‘just getting started’ in India: Netweb CMD

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Netweb Technologies, the youngest of India’s technology companies to have gone public, is banking on sustained demand for homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) tools, platforms and applications to sustain strong growth over the next three to five years, a top company executive told Mint on Monday. In an interview, Sanjay Lodha, chairman and managing director of Netweb, said demand for AI “is far from facing a crash—in fact, in India, the conversations are just getting started." “We are seeing a lot of clients talk about AI spending, and it is only in the past few months that India has begun seriously spending on AI infrastructure and services," Lodha told Mint.

19.01 / 12:05

markets IPO Provident Platform security Research Trade In Dalal Street’s gold rush, some winners are selling the shovels

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: His name never crops up in modern investment literature, and yet in a more clear-eyed world, Samuel Brannan would have been anointed the patron saint of market acumen. Or at least would have chapters dedicated to him in business school textbooks.

19.01 / 09:59

COST Digital Platform show audience information guidelines New rules, new ads: Micro-drama platforms say privacy first

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Micro-drama platforms, despite being relatively young in India, are moving away from surveillance-like targeting in favour of consent-driven, contextual advertising to comply with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023.

19.01 / 07:41

markets COST UPS Platform Qualcomm band reports Shadowfox vs Delhivery: Fast growth, early profits—and a concentration risk investors can’t ignore

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shadowfox is scaling rapidly, improving margins, and entering the market at a sharp discount to listed peer Delhivery. But its investment case is complicated by heavy client concentration.

19.01 / 00:45

markets UPS Platform Research Pinduoduo social reports Why social commerce thrives in China but struggles to scale in India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For the past few years, social commerce has been pitched in Indian boardrooms as the next China-sized gold rush. Yet, despite the hype, India remains more a spectator than a participant, and social commerce has yet to realise its full potential in the country.

19.01 / 00:45

markets COST Platform Reddit Instagram travelers International Being an authority as a travel partner key to trust for visa: Atlys’ Santosh Hegde

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Once an elusive mark of wealth, the annual foreign vacation is now getting increasingly common among affluent Indians in metros and smaller cities alike. So much so that a16z-backed visa services firm Atlys ran a unique sale in August last year, offering visas for just ₹1.

19.01 / 00:45

UPS Target Aware Platform awards Highways Traffic Build-operate-transfer model returns: India to bid out half its highways, worth Rs75,000cr, next fiscal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian government plans to bid out half of the national highway projects planned for fiscal 2027–a spending of Rs75,000 crore on 5,000 km–under a build-operate-transfer (BoT) toll model involving private road developers after a long break since 2014, said three government officials aware of the new plan.

19.01 / 00:45

markets Platform Entertainment film stage rights Beyond the soundtrack — music labels look at full-stack entertainment

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Weak streaming monetization is pushing music labels closer to the source of value—film and series creation.

19.01 / 00:31

markets COST Citi Digital Google Platform Gap RJio confident of organic Arpu growth, sees no immediate need for tariff hike

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As India’s telecom firms weigh the timing and need for tariff hikes, Reliance Jio Infocomm, India’s largest operator by market share, has ruled out any immediate increase, signalling confidence in organic growth in its average revenue per user (Arpu), driven by rising 5G usage. This contrasts with the stance of rival operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea that have repeatedly flagged the need for tariff correction to improve their returns on capital deployed.

19.01 / 00:31

markets UPS Platform show performer consequences Reliance Industries: Is FMCG the next big bet?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL) December quarter (Q3FY26) results are muted. Consolidated net profit attributable to owners remained flat year-on-year to ₹18,645 crore; while Ebitda inched up by 5% to ₹46,018 crore.

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